@Jam exact quote is: one thing StackOverflow and StackExchange aficionados will need to realize pretty quickly is that we don't care very much about StackOverflow and StackExchange.
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JNKSep 22 '11 at 15:35

Well I suppose that's fair enough! This is highly a topic of personal opinion, but I don't mind SO being closed source; it's a great resource of information with an equally great community.
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BojanglesSep 22 '11 at 16:00

OSQA — which powers LockerGnome — basically started off as an attempt to fork Stack Exchange when Joel and Jeff blindsided everybody with the 2.0 announcements last year. The idea was, as much as they'd deny it, to provide a refuge for anyone disenfranchised by Joel and Jeff's way of doing things. Their remit has since changed but this does explain the virtually identical layout and text.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with OSQA, and didn't even know that it existed until about ten minutes ago. I just read this post.

Thanks for some of the behind the scenes stuff, Tomalak. There's too much competition and too many people saying "what you use is crap because I don't use it" in this world. OSS is about choice!
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BojanglesSep 22 '11 at 16:03

the design is "inspired". Not sure if that's ripping off.
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SathyaSep 22 '11 at 9:41

To your answer: thank you. To your last paragraph: no, but I don't think StackExchange is short of visitors. As I said in agf's answer, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery :-P
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BojanglesSep 22 '11 at 9:43

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+1 for Should we want to do anything about it?. I'm a little bit sick of seeing people go all you damn thiefs your stealing their copyright on FLOSS clones of proprietary projects. If those clones succeed, it means they are better, it's called evolution. So far, Stack Exchange is doing very fine.
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Time Traveling BobbySep 22 '11 at 10:30

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@Padded I completely agree - I don't mind OSQA being around; we've got SO with a lot of momentum behind it, with piles of great content (and some not-so-great stuff).
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BojanglesSep 22 '11 at 16:01